Profile of Jon Olsen

Jon Olsen

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Cloudland Road
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

Intervale
4 x 12

Black Water River
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

East Barnard Road
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

Clay Hill
4 x 12

Ash & Maple
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Red Barns
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

Geese
4 x 12

Sleepy Hollow Farm
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Waterlillies
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

East Hill Farm
4 x 12

Potter Hill
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Row Boat
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

Hay Bales
4 x 12

Autumn Fog
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Valley Fog
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

Great Egret
4 x 12

Roadside Maple
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Spring Oak
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

Hewitts Corner
4 x 12

Still Water
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Morning Row
7-1/2 x 9-1/2

Skating on Occum Pond
4 x 12

Moss Glenn Falls
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Reading Farm
in Winter
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Rows of Corn
4 x 12

Woodstock Middle
Bridge
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Woodstock Covered
Bridge
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Stone Farm House
4 x 12

Birches
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Sledding Hill
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Farm Buildings in Snow
4 x 12

Harbor Fog
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Red Sleigh
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Waits River
7-1/2 x 7-1/2

Meeting House Farm
5-1/2 x 12

Tulip Tree Blossom 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	Sugar Maple Seedling 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	Hosta 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	Thorne Apple Datura 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	Double Daffodil 7-1/2 x 7-1/2
Pickerel Weed 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	Blue #2 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	The Mooring 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	Respite 7-1/2 x 7-1/2	Red House 7-1/2 x 7-1/2

I have been involved in photography since high school in the mid 1970's and am generally self-taught. I earned a BA in Political Science, but pursued photography full time right out of school. I operated a gallery on the Maine coast featuring my photographic prints in the 1980's. Later I became involved in caretaking and property management in New Hampshire, but within the last few years I have returned to photography. I have a studio in Norwich, Vermont, where I live with my wife and three children.

I have always been an amateur naturalist and a student of the visual arts. I enjoy exploring the landscape and its components. I find the variations in light, form, texture and color offered by the elements of a landscape fascinating, with endless possibilities for study and observation. I am always drawn toward the pastoral and simplicity in design.

Over the years I have explored many different forms of photography: black and white, color, different formats, films and printing processes. In the last several years I have made the transition to a process of digital recording, processing and printing. This current set-up allows me the greatest creative control over all aspects of my workflow from conception to final print. A desktop processing system replaces the wet darkroom, but the workflow is much the same: determining exposure, contrast, color temperature, dodging and burning, etc. I use a fine art watercolor paper coated to receive pigment inks and an Epson pigment ink printer. These two combine for the best print quality that I have ever been able to achieve, and a highly stable archival print, more so than I could attain with traditional color print processes.

I am honored that Boston University's Photographic Resource Center presented me with their award for excellence in photography in 2006.